Public Elected Officials, Tensas Parish, Louisiana
     Source: Book of Oaths, Tensas Parish  Submitted by Edith Ziegler, JAN 2000

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     ST. JOSEPH, LOUISIANA:
     Incorporated February 26, 1901

     B.F. McEnery                      1882-1885
     no further entries for St. Joseph until 1901
     William M. Davidson               1901-1928
     A.B. Ratcliff                     1930-1932
     Philip Watson                     1931-1935
     German Baker                      1935-1940
     J.C. MacPherson                   1940
     Thomas M. Wade, Jr.               1940-1942
     German Baker                      1942-1948
     O.N. Wilds                        1948-1964
     A.G. McIntosh                     1965-1976
     Whitfield Jones                   1976-2000
     

     NEWELLTON:
     Incorporated June 3, 1904

     Louis Buckner                     1904-1908
     John D. Fultz                     1908-1911
     R.G. Newell                       1911
     Martin Jacoby                     1912-1921
     Leon Kullman                      1921-1924
     W.W. Burnside                     1924-1940
     E.R. McDonald                     1940-1948
     T.T. Hargrove                     1948-1958
     Frank R. Burnside                 1958 1966
     Edwin G. Preis                    1966-2000


     WATERPROOF:
     Incorporated by Act 63, 2nd Session, 1872

     C.M. Curell                       1872-1874
     B.F. Bonney                       1874-1875
     Jacob Hornberger                  1875-1876
     T.J. Hays                         1876-1878
     A.S. Garner                       1878-1882
     Hartwig Moss                      1882-1883
     Joseph Gorton                     1883-1885
     N.B. Hunter                       1885-1907
     A. McAllister                     1911-1913
     Dr. H.P. Greaves                  1913-1924
     Joseph H. Seamon                  1924-1930
     S.H. Webb                         1930-1958
     Louis Preis, Sr.                  1958-1974
     Harold E. Turner                  1974-1978
     Don McGehee                       1978-1983
     Harold Turner                     1983-1986
     Robert Rushing                    1986-1991
     Linda Lushute                     1991-1983
     Harold Turner                     1991-1994
     Mary Owen                         1994-1998
     Mariah J. Cooper                  1998-2002


     Public Elected Officials     Tensas Parish, Louisiana
     Source: Book of Oaths, Tensas Parish -- Submitted by:Edith Ziegler

     SHERIFF:

     1843-1847        Samuel H. Walker
     1847-1849        John F. Harper
     1849-1851        John H. Armant
     1851-1868        G.W. Williams
     1868-1870        James W. Gillespie
     1870-1872        E.S. Whitney
     1873-1876        A.J. Bryant
     1876-1878        John W. Register
     1880-1905        W.C. Young
     1905-1936        John Hughes
     1936-1960        Elliot Coleman
     1960-1968        Max Seamen
     1968-1984        Bill Poe
     1984-1992        Fred Scott
     1992-1999        Jeff Britt
     1999-2000        Mike McDonald (served a portion of unexpired term of Britt)
     1999-2004        Ricky Jones (elected to serve the balance of an unexpired 
                      term and also a four year term.)


     Public Officials of Tensas Parish after the end of the Civil War
     were moved to and confined to a Military Prison in Alton, Ill.
     The Consolidated Morning Report of August 1, 1883 listed the following:
     Castleman, Richard M.
     Snyder, Robert H. 
     Snyder, Alonzo
     Aronie, Julius
     Williams, George W.
     Farrar, Thos. P.
     Murdock, Robert
     Brown, Aatlas
     Williams, J.C.
 

     Noted in the oath books, during the years of 1877-1878 many special
     deputies were sworn in. This was during the time of the attempted
     uprising that was to take place near Waterproof.

     Deputy Sheriff George E. Wallace, was sworn in on September 24, 1888
     for quarantine purposes at Brown's Landing in Tensas Parish.

     Sheriff Elliot Coleman was one of Huey Long's bodyguards. He was present
     when Dr. Weiss shot at Gov. Long, and in fact shot the assailiant.